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1.1     ! root        1: .TH VI 1 "2 December 1979"
        !             2: .UC
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: vi \- screen oriented (visual) display editor based on ex
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B vi
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B \-t
        !             9: tag
        !            10: ] [
        !            11: .B \-r
        !            12: ] [
        !            13: \fB+\fR\fIcommand\fR
        !            14: ] [
        !            15: .B \-l
        !            16: ] [
        !            17: \fB\-w\fIn\fR
        !            18: ]
        !            19: name ...
        !            20: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            21: .I Vi
        !            22: (visual) is a display oriented text editor based on
        !            23: .IR ex (1).
        !            24: .I Ex
        !            25: and
        !            26: .I vi
        !            27: run the same code; it is possible to get to
        !            28: the command mode of
        !            29: .I ex
        !            30: from within
        !            31: .I vi
        !            32: and vice-versa.
        !            33: .PP
        !            34: The
        !            35: .I "Vi Quick Reference"
        !            36: card and the
        !            37: .I "Introduction to Display Editing with Vi"
        !            38: provide full details on using
        !            39: .I vi.
        !            40: .SH FILES
        !            41: See
        !            42: .IR ex (1).
        !            43: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            44: ex (1), edit (1), ``Vi Quick Reference'' card,
        !            45: ``An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi''.
        !            46: .SH AUTHOR
        !            47: William Joy
        !            48: .br
        !            49: Mark Horton added macros to \fIvisual\fR mode and is maintaining version 3
        !            50: .SH BUGS
        !            51: Software tabs using \fB^T\fR work only immediately after the
        !            52: .I autoindent.
        !            53: .PP
        !            54: Left and right shifts on intelligent terminals don't make use of
        !            55: insert and delete character operations in the terminal.
        !            56: .PP
        !            57: The
        !            58: .I wrapmargin
        !            59: option can be fooled since it looks at output columns when blanks are typed.
        !            60: If a long word passes through the margin and onto the next line without a 
        !            61: break, then the line won't be broken.
        !            62: .PP
        !            63: Insert/delete within a line can be slow if tabs are present on intelligent
        !            64: terminals, since the terminals need help in doing this correctly.
        !            65: .PP
        !            66: Saving text on deletes in the named buffers is somewhat inefficient.
        !            67: .PP
        !            68: The
        !            69: .I source
        !            70: command does not work when executed as \fB:source\fR;
        !            71: there is no way to use the \fB:append\fR, \fB:change\fR,
        !            72: and \fB:insert\fR commands, since it is not possible to give
        !            73: more than one line of input to a \fB:\fR escape.  To use these
        !            74: on a \fB:global\fR you must \fBQ\fR to \fIex\fR command mode,
        !            75: execute them, and then reenter the screen editor with
        !            76: .I vi
        !            77: or
        !            78: .I open.

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